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Articles by Deirdre McCann
A Strategic Approach to Regulating Unacceptable Forms of Work
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Lessons from Brazil and India on how to fight forced labour and in-work poverty
The visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to the UK is crystallising an unease about the state of working life. Work is fundamental to combating poverty. Yet, despite the employment rate remaining high, the UK is experiencing a worrying increase in the number of people who are in work but still in poverty, due to the growth of types of work that are unacceptable over the last decade. The law plays an important role here.
We need to combat forced labour and in-work poverty - Brazil and India offer some lessons
The visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to the UK is crystallising an unease about the state of working life. Work is fundamental to combating poverty. Yet, despite the employment rate remaining high, the UK is experiencing a worrying increase in the number of people who are in work but still in poverty, due to the growth of types of work that are unacceptable over the last decade. The law plays an important role here.
Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World
In 2011, in a volume of essays on Regulating for Decent Work, Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann, as editors, identified the limitations of a deregulatory agenda in terms of the outcomes for labour markets. Yet, if regulation is desirable, and there seems to a growing consensus that this is the case (see Ralf Rogowski, Reflexive Labour Law in the World Society (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013)), the question remains as to how such interventions might be crafted in order to achieve optimal results.
Travel Time as Working Time: Tyco, the Unitary Model and the Route to Casualisation
As casualisation strategies have proliferated in the wake of the global crisis, techniques to exclude discrete time periods from the working day are increasingly being devised. Vulnerable periods are targeted and configured as regulatory no-man’s lands that encircle disjointed episodes of protected work. Travel time is one such disputed site.
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